That's the predicament of the narrator of this novel, who's given the magnificent name of "Libertie" by her mother - a Black female doctor modeled on McKinney-Steward. But, of course, it can be hard living in the shadow of such a pathbreaker, especially when you yourself are drawn to the simpler pleasures of the conventional. McKinney-Steward was an exceptional woman, a pioneer. Susan Smith McKinney-Steward, the third African American woman to earn a medical degree in this country.Īfter the Civil War, McKinney-Steward opened her own practice in Brooklyn and co-founded the Brooklyn Women's Homeopathic Hospital and Dispensary.
Libertie, a new novel by Kaitlyn Greenidge, is inspired by the life of Dr.
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